מוֹצָא
môwtsâʼ · mo-tsaw'
a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מֹצָאxlit môtsâ corrected to môtsâʼ; from H3318 (יָצָא);
a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
- a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit
- hence, a source or product
- specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-) course (springs).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › to pursue the straight path › strength, the leader
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish that works to pursue the straight path of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מוֹצָא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- brought2 · 7%
- his going forth2 · 7%
- them; then whatsoever proceeded1 · 4%
- their goings out1 · 4%
- according to their goings out1 · 4%
- but by every word that proceedeth1 · 4%
- that which is gone out1 · 4%
- thy going out1 · 4%
- unto the spring1 · 4%
- watercourse1 · 4%
- there is a vein1 · 4%
- ground; and to cause the bud1 · 4%
- thou makest the outgoings1 · 4%
- cometh neither from the east1 · 4%
- the thing that is gone out1 · 4%
- and the watersprings1 · 4%
- into watersprings1 · 4%
- springs1 · 4%
- and like a spring1 · 4%
- that which came out1 · 4%
- as they that go forth1 · 4%
- they: and all their goings out1 · 4%
- thereof, and the goings out1 · 4%
- with every going forth1 · 4%
- that from the going forth1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.